.NET Core Job Trends in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 329 220 162
Rank change year-on-year -109 -58 -48
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 324 761 985
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.70% 1.24% 2.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.08% 6.03% 7.90%
Number of salaries quoted 298 539 911
10th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £71,250 £76,875
90th Percentile £105,375 £87,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Core falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,381 12,625 12,467
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.77% 20.60% 26.68%
Number of salaries quoted 4,785 7,651 10,247
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +1.50%
75th Percentile £86,250 £85,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -0.76% +0.77%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in England

.NET Core
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 22 November 2025.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the England region over the 6 months to 22 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +14 131 £77,500 +4.73% 120
North of England -45 74 £55,000 - 93
North West +3 46 £55,000 -4.35% 56
South East -69 45 £57,500 +4.55% 88
Midlands -16 30 £68,000 +46.24% 37
South West +19 25 £47,500 -26.92% 26
Yorkshire -33 21 £40,000 -20.00% 26
East Midlands -13 19 £75,000 +57.89% 15
East of England -21 14 £60,000 +20.00% 31
West Midlands +10 11 £60,000 +33.33% 20
North East +1 7 £60,000 +33.33% 11
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 12 (3.70%) IIS
2 8 (2.47%) CMS
3 6 (1.85%) Confluence
3 6 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.23%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.93%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.31%) Kentico
Applications
1 3 (0.93%) S-PLUS
2 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.31%) ION Anvil
1 1 (0.31%) Magento
1 1 (0.31%) SAP Business One
1 1 (0.31%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 221 (68.21%) Azure
2 96 (29.63%) AWS
3 49 (15.12%) Azure DevOps
4 37 (11.42%) Serverless
5 30 (9.26%) GitHub
6 21 (6.48%) Azure Functions
7 20 (6.17%) Azure Service Bus
8 19 (5.86%) Power Platform
9 17 (5.25%) SaaS
10 15 (4.63%) GCP
11 14 (4.32%) GitHub Actions
12 12 (3.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 12 (3.70%) Power Automate
13 11 (3.40%) AWS Lambda
13 11 (3.40%) Azure App Service
14 10 (3.09%) Azure AKS
15 8 (2.47%) Azure Logic Apps
15 8 (2.47%) PowerApps
16 7 (2.16%) Entra ID
17 6 (1.85%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.54%) Internet
2 2 (0.62%) HTTP
2 2 (0.62%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (36.11%) SQL Server
2 57 (17.59%) MongoDB
3 50 (15.43%) Azure SQL Database
4 30 (9.26%) NoSQL
5 26 (8.02%) Elasticsearch
6 20 (6.17%) PostgreSQL
7 14 (4.32%) Relational Database
8 13 (4.01%) MySQL
9 11 (3.40%) DynamoDB
10 10 (3.09%) Power BI
10 10 (3.09%) Redis
11 8 (2.47%) NonStop SQL
12 6 (1.85%) Data Hub
12 6 (1.85%) SQL CLR
12 6 (1.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (1.23%) MariaDB
13 4 (1.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 1 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
14 1 (0.31%) Event Store
14 1 (0.31%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 56 (17.28%) Git
2 16 (4.94%) JIRA
3 12 (3.70%) Visual Studio
4 8 (2.47%) GitLab
5 7 (2.16%) Octopus Deploy
5 7 (2.16%) TeamCity
6 5 (1.54%) Jenkins
6 5 (1.54%) NUnit
7 4 (1.23%) MSTest
7 4 (1.23%) Postman
7 4 (1.23%) SonarQube
7 4 (1.23%) Team Foundation Server
7 4 (1.23%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (0.93%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.93%) JMeter
8 3 (0.93%) Selenium
9 2 (0.62%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.62%) Vite
10 1 (0.31%) CA Release Automation
10 1 (0.31%) Sourcetree
General
1 49 (15.12%) Finance
2 44 (13.58%) Social Skills
3 17 (5.25%) Law
4 16 (4.94%) Retail
5 13 (4.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (3.40%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (3.40%) Back Office
6 11 (3.40%) Public Sector
7 9 (2.78%) Legal
8 8 (2.47%) Advertising
8 8 (2.47%) Games
9 7 (2.16%) Banking
10 6 (1.85%) Front Office
11 5 (1.54%) Automotive
12 4 (1.23%) Marketing
13 3 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.93%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
15 1 (0.31%) Electronics
15 1 (0.31%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 233 (71.91%) Developer
2 123 (37.96%) .NET Developer
3 70 (21.60%) Senior
4 52 (16.05%) C# Developer
5 49 (15.12%) Senior Developer
6 48 (14.81%) Software Developer
7 44 (13.58%) Full-Stack Developer
8 35 (10.80%) Software Engineer
9 29 (8.95%) Lead
10 23 (7.10%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
10 23 (7.10%) Senior C# Developer
11 20 (6.17%) .NET Software Engineer
11 20 (6.17%) Senior .NET Developer
12 18 (5.56%) Lead Developer
13 16 (4.94%) React Developer
14 14 (4.32%) C# .NET Developer
14 14 (4.32%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 12 (3.70%) C# Software Developer
16 10 (3.09%) Azure Developer
16 10 (3.09%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 324 (100.00%) .NET
2 123 (37.96%) ASP.NET
3 105 (32.41%) AngularJS
3 105 (32.41%) React
4 96 (29.63%) .NET Framework
5 81 (25.00%) HTML
6 78 (24.07%) RESTful
7 77 (23.77%) Entity Framework
8 69 (21.30%) CSS
9 62 (19.14%) ASP.NET MVC
10 59 (18.21%) ASP.NET Web API
11 46 (14.20%) Vue
12 41 (12.65%) HTML5
13 39 (12.04%) Blazor
14 38 (11.73%) Node.js
15 30 (9.26%) ASP.NET Core
16 26 (8.02%) REST
17 23 (7.10%) CSS3
18 20 (6.17%) LINQ
19 14 (4.32%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 41 (12.65%) Cloud Native
2 18 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
3 17 (5.25%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (4.01%) AI Agents
5 9 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (2.47%) Product Ownership
7 7 (2.16%) Digital TV
7 7 (2.16%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 6 (1.85%) 3D Graphics
8 6 (1.85%) Algorithms
8 6 (1.85%) Mobile App
8 6 (1.85%) Private Cloud
9 5 (1.54%) Fixed Income
9 5 (1.54%) Public Cloud
10 3 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.93%) Derivative
10 3 (0.93%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.62%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.47%) Windows
2 7 (2.16%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.31%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (48.15%) Agile
2 140 (43.21%) Full-Stack Development
3 122 (37.65%) Microservices
4 117 (36.11%) CI/CD
5 99 (30.56%) DevOps
6 93 (28.70%) Software Engineering
7 83 (25.62%) MVC
8 60 (18.52%) Clean Code
9 51 (15.74%) Problem-Solving
9 51 (15.74%) Scrum
10 50 (15.43%) TDD
11 49 (15.12%) Containerisation
12 47 (14.51%) Continuous Improvement
13 36 (11.11%) Mentoring
14 35 (10.80%) SDLC
15 31 (9.57%) BDD
16 29 (8.95%) Kanban
17 28 (8.64%) Infrastructure as Code
17 28 (8.64%) Unit Testing
18 27 (8.33%) AI
Programming Languages
1 290 (89.51%) C#
2 134 (41.36%) SQL
3 133 (41.05%) JavaScript
4 74 (22.84%) TypeScript
5 34 (10.49%) Python
6 13 (4.01%) Rust
7 12 (3.70%) T-SQL
8 6 (1.85%) Go
8 6 (1.85%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.54%) Java
10 4 (1.23%) VB.NET
11 3 (0.93%) Erlang
11 3 (0.93%) PHP
12 2 (0.62%) Bicep
12 2 (0.62%) XAML
13 1 (0.31%) C++
Qualifications
1 39 (12.04%) Degree
2 16 (4.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (2.47%) Security Cleared
4 7 (2.16%) SC Cleared
5 6 (1.85%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.54%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.54%) AWS Certified Developer
7 4 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.62%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.25%) QA
2 10 (3.09%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.16%) WCAG
4 3 (0.93%) GDPR
5 2 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.31%) Data Quality
System Software
1 74 (22.84%) Docker
2 6 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.62%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 43 (13.27%) Kubernetes
2 27 (8.33%) Terraform
3 2 (0.62%) Ansible
3 2 (0.62%) Grafana
Vendors
1 114 (35.19%) Microsoft
2 7 (2.16%) Facebook
2 7 (2.16%) YouTube
3 6 (1.85%) VMware
4 4 (1.23%) Dynatrace
4 4 (1.23%) Google
5 3 (0.93%) Databricks
5 3 (0.93%) Oracle
6 2 (0.62%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (0.62%) New Relic
6 2 (0.62%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.31%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.31%) IBM
7 1 (0.31%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.31%) IONA
7 1 (0.31%) Okta
7 1 (0.31%) SAP
7 1 (0.31%) ServiceNow